Total health expenditure of OECD countries as a share of GDP (2013)

This chart shows total health expenditure as a share of GDP across 30 OECD countries, including the UK.

Total health spending accounted for 8.5 per cent of GDP in the UK in 2013, less than the OECD average of 9.0 per cent. European countries to which the United Kingdom is often compared, like France and Germany, typically spend a greater proportion of national income on health.

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